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Issue: Archie Giant Series Magazine #520
Publication Date: September 1982
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Issues: #520 of 332 Issues (502 Printings)
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Is Variant Variant: CA Cover Price
Rating: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Publisher: FlagArchie Publications, Inc.
Brand:
Indicia Publisher: Archie Comic Publications Inc.
On Sale Date: 1982
Volume:
Pages: 36
ISBN:
UPC/EAN: 0271000698609
Price: $0.75 CAD
Indicia Frequency: Approved by the Comics Code Authority
Content Items: 0 (0 stories, 0 covers)
7 (4 stories, 1 cover) from base issue
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Disclose Notes: This issue re-introduces the larger number of panels that Archie comics had used in the late '50s and early '60s, with at least four panels on the first page of most stories and at least one extra small panel on the other pages.
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Publication Type: Comic Book
Color: color
Dimensions: standard Silver Age US; later standard Modern Age US
Paper Stock: glossy cover; newsprint interior
Binding: perfect bound; later saddle-stitched
Publishing Format: was ongoing series
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Illustration  on  Cover, Front from base issue
Credits
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Letterer(s): ?
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
First Line: Boys are all alike, Betty!!
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Pages: 1
Disclose Notes: Joke reused, with a gender switch, for the cover of Archie's Pals 'n' Gals Double Digest Magazine #5.
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Figures in the Sand

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Jughead Jones; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
Synopsis: The girls arrive at the beach to stun the boys with their new bikinis, but the guys are too occupied with building sand castles to notice them.
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Pages: 6
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Letters Page  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge
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Pages: 1
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The Beach or Bust!

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Smithers
Synopsis: Veronica refuses to go to the beach unless she can bring a ton of things that barely fit in Archie's car.
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Pages: 6
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Take It Off

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
Synopsis: Someone is always wearing the same swimsuit as Veronica, no matter how expensive the suit. So she asks Betty to make her an original suit.
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The Sea Scene

Illustration  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
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Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Feature(s): Veronica's Fashions
Character(s): Veronica Lodge
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Pages: 1
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Leroy Was Here

Story  on  Interior Page(s) from base issue
Subject Matter
Genres: humorous, teen
Character(s): Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Smithers
Synopsis: Cousin Leroy is visiting and makes life heck for Archie by putting green dye in the suntan lotion.
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Pages: 5

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